- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Edith F., who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1920. She recounts her wealthy, assimilated home; attending Czech and German schools; private religious instruction at home; meeting her future husband at age fifteen; moving to London in 1938 when Austria was annexed by Germany; frequently returning to Prague, sometimes without her parents; leaving immediately after occupation with her future husband (his family remained, were deported, and killed); letters from relatives in Theresienstadt; leaving London for Exeter after the war began; emigrating to Brazil; marriage; learning her father-in-law had perished; moving to São Paulo; raising their children as non-Jews, although they knew they were Jewish; her husband's successful academic and writing career; her father's brief return to Prague immediately after the war; his reclaiming some property; remaining in Brazil due to the communist government in Czechoslovakia; leaving for Europe in 1972; and living in several places, eventually settling in Munich. Ms. F. discusses the deaths of many relatives; her children's lives; her husband's biography; and his burial in a Prague Jewish cemetery.
- Author/Creator
- F., Edith, 1920-2014.
- Published
- Potsdam, Germany : Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum für europäisch-jüdische Studien, Universität Potsdam, 1997
- Interview Date
- November 29, 1997.
- Locale
- Czechoslovakia
Prague (Czech Republic)
London (England)
Exeter (England)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
São Paulo (Brazil)
Munich (Germany)
- Cite As
- Edith F. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3737). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Bräuer, Stefanie, interviewer.
Preisler, Maximilian, interviewer.
- Notes
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This testimony is in German.
Related publication: Bodenlos : eine philosophische Autobiographie / Vilém Flusser ; mit einem Nachwort von Milton Vargas. 1. Aufl. -- Bensheim: Bollman, c1992.
